VTB Capital has appointed Xin Lin and Wei Chen, as part of it’s growing business in the Asia-Pacific region, to its Hong Kong office.

Lin has been appointed as VTB Capital’s head of multiproduct sales for China, and she joins from Nomura International Hong Kong, where she was head of global finance, COO of China, since 2008.

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Lin will report jointly to Philip Hamilton, global fixed income sales, and Makram Abboud, CEO Middle East & Africa and co-head of the international multi-product origination and distribution group and regionally to Damian Chunilal, CEO Asia. She will be responsible for sales and origination and fixed income across Chinese corporate, investor and financial institutional clients.

Prior to Nomura, Lin worked at Lehman Brothers as head of risk solutions group and global finance, China, between 2005 and 2008. She also held senior positions in the fixed income division at the UBS Hong Kong office, between 2001 and 2005. Lin began her career at J.P. Morgan’s Singapore division in 1998.

At VTB Capital, Chen will be responsible for covering the Chinese government, corporate and financial institutional clients. She will be focusing on China, covering state owned entities as well as private sector clients, and covering clients across the entirety of VTB’s corporate and investment banking capabilities.

Chen worked at the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong between 2000 and 2006, at global market of Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong between 2006 and 2012, and recently joined VTB Capital’s corporate and investment coverage team, covering Chinese corporate and financial institutional clients. She will report to Riccardo Orcel, deputy CEO at VTB Group, and regionally to Damian Chunilal.

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